Thanks Bo. That did the trick. The DISPLAYMANAGER variable used to be in rc.conf, but the last update removed it from there.
Jeff On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 00:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2006 23:59, jeff wrote: > > I just updated X, and now I no longer have a working install for > > automatic startup. > > > > When the boot process executes, I get the error > > "/sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/xdm: No such file or directory > > (No such file or directory)" > > > > However, if I then log in, typing 'startx' will successfully get me into > > kde. > > Did you want to use kdm or xdm as your displaymanager? If you want to use kdm > then you probably need to alter DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/conf.d/xdm. If you > want xdm then you probably need to emerge it. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
